Carrier for pencils.



PATENTED MAY 26, 1908.

G. A. OBERG.

CARRIER FOR PENGILS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28, 1907.

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GUSTAF A. OBERG, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

CARRIER FOR PENCILS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 28, 1907.

Patented May 26, 1908.

Serial No. 376,072.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUsTAF A. OBERG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oakland, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Carriers for Pencils and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the resent invention is to provide a simple an inexpensive device to e attached to a hat for the purpose of holding a pencil or other small article.

t is especially ada ted for use by expressmen, draymen, siliipping clerks, and other persons occupied out of doors, whose business requires frequent use of a encil.

In the accompanying drawing, igure 1 is a side view showing the device attached to a hat; Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the device detached; Fig. 3 is a cross section.

Referring to the drawing, 1 indicates the entire device which is formed of a piece of wire bent as follows :At one end it is formed into a pin, shown at 2, having a sharpened point 3, the end of said pin being bent in a oop 4 and then extending in a reverse direction as shown at 5, but having two loops 6 formed therein, then bent at right angles as shown at 7, and then back on itself, as shown at 8, and having two loops 9 therein, then bent at right angles and assing throu h the loop 4, and then bent bac at right ang es, as shown at 10 and having loops 11 formed therein, and then bent around the art 7, and into a hook or guard 12 ada te to engage the point of the pin. The cops 6 extend straight out or at right angles to the surface passing through the parts 5, 8 and 10, but the loops 9 and 11 at the sides lie in curved surfaces of a general ogee form, that is to say, they extend first outwards and then inwards and then outwards again at the top. They thus form spring cli s adapted to retain the pencil in position whfie the outer swell or bend ermits of the ppncil being readily inserte The pin, eing movable about an axis transverse to the direction of the loops, can readily be inserted in the hat band so that the loops then extend at the proper position to engage and retain a pencil. The device can also be used to carry other small articles, as a match box.

I claim 2' i 1. A device of the character described, comprising a piece of wire bent to form members bent into loops extending substantially at right angles to the surface through said members, a pin movable-about an axis transverse to said direction of said loops, and a guard engaging the oint of the pin, substantially as described 2. A device of the character described comprising a single piece of wire bent to form a central member and two side members, all of said members being bent into loops extending substantially at right angles to the surface through said members, and adapted to engage the sides of a pencil or the like, and also formed into a pin and a guard to engage the oint of the pin, substantially as described? In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GUSTAF A. OBERG. Witnesses:

FRANcIs M. WRIGHT, D. B.'RICHARDS. 

